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Hydraulically Amplified Electrostatic Taxels (HAXELs) for Full Body Haptics

Herbert Shea, Edouard Franck Vincent Gustave Leroy

The ability to mechanically stimulate touch receptors over the entire body is a key feature for fully immersive and highly realistic virtual reality experience. Haptic stickers, flexible arrays of HAXELs (hydraulically amplified TAXels), that enable cutane ...

Wiley2023

Steps parameters of elderly patients hospitalised for an acute medical illness in a Swiss University Hospital: an observational pilot study

Anisoara Ionescu, Francesco Tommasini

BACKGROUND: Objective mobility goals for elderly hospitalised medical patients remain debated. We therefore studied steps parameters of elderly patients hospitalised for an acute illness, to determine goals for future interventional trials and medical prac ...

SMW supporting association2022

INCLASS: Incremental Classification Strategy for Self-Aware Epileptic Seizure Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Renaud Marquis

Wearable Health Companions allow the unobtrusive monitoring of patients affected by chronic conditions. In particular, by acquiring and interpreting bio-signals, they enable the detection of acute episodes in cardiac and neurological ailments. Nevertheless ...

IEEE2022

Adaptive R-Peak Detection on Wearable ECG Sensors for High-Intensity Exercise

David Atienza Alonso, Elisabetta De Giovanni, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Grégoire Millet

Objective: Continuous monitoring of biosignals via wearable sensors has quickly expanded in the medical and wellness fields. At rest, automatic detection of vital parameters is generally accurate. However, in conditions such as high-intensity exercise, sud ...

2022

Real-world gait speed estimation, frailty and handgrip strength: a cohort-based study

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Abolfazl Soltani

Gait speed is a reliable outcome measure across multiple diagnoses, recognized as the 6th vital sign. The focus of the present study was on assessment of gait speed in long-term real-life settings with the aim to: (1) demonstrate feasibility in large cohor ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Microscale Liquid Metal Conductors for Stretchable and Transparent Electronics

Stéphanie Lacour, Giuseppe Schiavone, Ivan Furfaro, Laurent Mirko Dejace, Haotian Chen

Integrated wearable electronics capable of transducing and transmitting biophysical information on complex and dynamic systems are attracting high interest across the consumer electronics, clinical, and research domains. Gallium and gallium-based liquid me ...

Wiley2021

System-level Design of Adaptive Wearable Sensors for Health and Wellness Monitoring

Elisabetta De Giovanni

In recent years, population aging and the consequent higher incidence of noncommunicable diseases, have increased the need for long-term health monitoring. Moreover, as healthcare cost is projected to grow substantially by 2030 in OECD countries, the deman ...

EPFL2021

Real-World Gait Bout Detection Using a Wrist Sensor: An Unsupervised Real-Life Validation

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Hooman Dejnabadi, Abolfazl Soltani

Gait bouts (GB), as a prominent indication of physical activity, contain valuable fundamental information closely associated with human & x2019;s health status. Therefore, objective assessment of the GB (e.g. detection, spatio-temporal analysis) during dai ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Apparatus for non-invasive sensing of biomarkers in human sweat

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Johan Frédéric Longo, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Francesco Bellando, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber

Presented herein are devices for collecting and/or channeling a biofluid (e.g., sweat, tears, saliva) and detecting and/or quantifying one or more biomarkers in the biofluid. The biomarker(s) may include, for example, ions, salts thereof, hormones and/or s ...

2019

A soft portable wearable pneumatic interactive suit

Jamie Paik, Matthew Aaron Robertson, Harshal Arun Sonar, Sagar Dattatray Joshi, Tigmanshu Bhatnagar

A fully wearable system used for communication and information transfer between two users or between a user and a machine to render an effective and intuitive physical interface for combined input and output functions, the fully wearable system including a ...

2018

An IoT Solution for Online Monitoring of Anesthetics in Human Serum Based on an Integrated Fluidic Bioelectronic System

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Tugba Kilic, Sofia Lydia Ntella, Abuduwaili Tuoheti, Danilo Demarchi, Nadia Tamburrano, Zijian Huang

In this paper, we present the design, the implementation and the validation of a novel Internet of Things (IoT) drug monitoring system for the online continuous and simultaneous detection of two main anesthetics, e.g., propofol and paracetamol, in undilute ...

2018

Prediction of patient-reported physical activity scores from wearable accelerometer data: a feasibility study

Martin Jaggi, Inès Bahej

Many diseases are characterized by limitations in mobility, including a wide range of musculoskeletal and neurological conditions. Reduced mobility impacts a patients ability to perform activities of daily living, which in turn reduces health-related quali ...

2018

Similarities and differences in the regulation of HoxD genes during chick and mouse limb development

Denis Duboule, Guillaume Andrey, Lucille Delisle, Christopher Chase Bolt, Leonardo Beccari, Nayuta Yakushiji

In all tetrapods examined thus far, the development and patterning of limbs require the activation of gene members of the HoxD cluster. In mammals, they are regulated by a complex bimodal process that controls first the proximal patterning and then the dis ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2018

Lab on skin™: 3D monolithically integrated zero-energy micro/nanofludics and FD SOI ion sensitive FETs for wearable multi-sensing sweat applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Johan Frédéric Longo, Francesco Bellando, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber

This paper reports a novel fully integrated low power multi-sensing smart system, which, by wafer-level 3D heterogeneous integration of Ion Sensitive Fully Depleted (FD) FETs and SU-8 micro/nanofludics, achieves the first of its kind wearable multi-sensing ...

2017

Signal Processing Approaches for Cardio-Respiratory Biosignals with an Emphasis on Mobile Health Applications

Leila Mirmohamadsadeghi

We humans are constantly preoccupied with our health and physiological status. From precise measurements such as the 12-lead electrocardiograms recorded in hospitals, we have moved on to mobile acquisition devices, now as versatile as smart-watches and sma ...

EPFL2017

Functional BIP: Embedding connectors in functional programming languages

Romain Edelmann, Joseph Sifakis, Simon Bliudze

This paper presents a theoretical foundation for functional language implementations of Behaviour–Interaction–Priority (BIP). We introduce a set of connector combinators describing synchronisation, data transfer, priorities and dynamicity in a principled w ...

Elsevier Science Inc2017

Paradigm-Shifting Players for IoT: Smart-Watches for Intensive Care Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Danilo Demarchi, Eleonora Lavalle

Wearable devices, e.g. smart-watches, are gaining popularity in many fields and in wellness monitoring too. In this paper we propose an IoT application to alert the medical doctor assigned to a critical unit by using a smart-watch. The wearable device impr ...

2016

Google Glass-Directed Monitoring and Control of Microfluidic Biosensors and Actuators

Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Danilo Demarchi

Google Glass is a recently designed wearable device capable of displaying information in a smartphone-like hands-free format by wireless communication. The Glass also provides convenient control over remote devices, primarily enabled by voice recognition c ...

Nature Research2016

Instrumented shoes for activity classification in the elderly

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu, Christopher Moufawad El Achkar

Quantifying daily physical activity in older adults can provide relevant monitoring and diagnostic information about risk of fall and frailty. In this study, we introduce instrumented shoes capable of recording movement and foot loading data unobtrusively ...

Elsevier2016

Fall detection with body-worn sensors A systematic review

Kamiar Aminian, Alan Kevin Bourke

Background and aims. Falls among older people remain a major public health challenge. Body-worn sensors are needed to improve the understanding of the underlying mechanisms and kinematics of falls. The aim of this systematic review is to assemble, extract ...

Springer Heidelberg2013